A Crisis of Authority. Six times, Jesus speaks a formula that is intended to provoke a crisis in the listeners’ hearts: “You have heard it said... But I say to you...” Does he mean to open up the conversation about calcified religious law, doubling down on personal moral agency while releasing us from the scrutiny of rigorous watchdogs? (Yes.)

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